Egypt
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
Wall Street Journal Cracking the Egyptian Code, By Andrew Robinson. Oxford. On Sept. 14, 1822, as legend tells the tale, Jean-François Champollion burst into his brother's Paris office at the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, flung...
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
The Independent, UK (Review by Brian MOrton) Cracking The Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life Of Jean-François Champollion, By Andrew Robinson More of a summary of Champollion than a review of of the book. This is the first full biography of...
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Daily Telegraph (Troy Lennon) I'm sure that this story gets wheeled out on a more or less annual basis by one publication or another. The "today" referred to in the story was 23rd December. Today is a double anniversary for Egyptology. On this day...
- Exhibition: Along The Nile (pisa, Italy)
Ansa.it A pioneering but fateful 19th-century expedition along the River Nile by two of the founding fathers of modern Egyptology is the focus of a new exhibition in Pisa. Funded by Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II and Charles X of France, the 1828-29...
- Figeac
http://tinyurl.com/de6g2 (The Telegraph) This is actually a travel article about the south of France, but it does contain a quick couple of paragraphs about hieroglyph decipherer Champollion's home town Figeac, where his former home is now a museum:...
Egypt
Online: Jean-François Champollion and ancient Egyptian embalming
The Lancet (Andrew Robinson)
Thanks very much to Yvonne Buskens for this link
The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9828, Pages 1782 - 1783, 12 May 2012
Thanks very much to Yvonne Buskens for this link
The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9828, Pages 1782 - 1783, 12 May 2012
200 years ago this year, the future founder of Egyptology, French linguist and archaeologist Jean-François Champollion (1790—1832)—the first person since classical antiquity to be able to read the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs—conducted a primitive experiment. It turned out to be one of the initial scientific steps on the long road to unravelling the mysteries of mummification, first described in the fifth century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus.
In 1812, Champollion was an impecunious 21-year-old assistant professor of history at the University of Grenoble and an assistant at the city's municipal library. A teenage prodigy in Oriental languages, he had become obsessed by understanding ancient Egypt, as a result of his schoolboy exposure to fascinating antiquities brought back from Egypt by the scientist and prefect of Grenoble, Joseph Fourier, who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte's army on its expedition in 1798—1801.
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
Wall Street Journal Cracking the Egyptian Code, By Andrew Robinson. Oxford. On Sept. 14, 1822, as legend tells the tale, Jean-François Champollion burst into his brother's Paris office at the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, flung...
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
The Independent, UK (Review by Brian MOrton) Cracking The Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life Of Jean-François Champollion, By Andrew Robinson More of a summary of Champollion than a review of of the book. This is the first full biography of...
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Daily Telegraph (Troy Lennon) I'm sure that this story gets wheeled out on a more or less annual basis by one publication or another. The "today" referred to in the story was 23rd December. Today is a double anniversary for Egyptology. On this day...
- Exhibition: Along The Nile (pisa, Italy)
Ansa.it A pioneering but fateful 19th-century expedition along the River Nile by two of the founding fathers of modern Egyptology is the focus of a new exhibition in Pisa. Funded by Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II and Charles X of France, the 1828-29...
- Figeac
http://tinyurl.com/de6g2 (The Telegraph) This is actually a travel article about the south of France, but it does contain a quick couple of paragraphs about hieroglyph decipherer Champollion's home town Figeac, where his former home is now a museum:...